This week I kinda want to talk a little bit about different current events that are going on both local and national, and just give me thoughts on it a little bit.
In particular today, I want to talk about something that happened in North Dakota that I read an article about. North Dakota has a program that allows the governor to allocate bonuses to state staff, which was implemented in 1999, but has only been used extremely sparingly. This year, Governor Dalrymple used this program pretty liberally, giving many members of his staff up to $30,000 in bonuses.
Defending his position, he stated that these staff are extremely valuable, and in order to stay competitive with the job market they need an incentive to stay.
I generally completely agree with the Governor's position, as in a lot of cases low to mid level government job's aren't as competitive in terms of wage compared to private sector jobs. If North Dakota wants to keep going in the right direction, you need people that are willing and able to do the job.